وزارة الدفاع : إستشهاد 5 وجرح 23 شخصاً أثر قصف الحركة الشعبية لكادقلي

Quote: South Kordofan: Shells 'land in Sudan town' Yida refugee camp, South Sudan Thousands of people have fled the fighting in South Kordofan state Several shells have landed in the capital of Sudan's South Kordofan state, near the country's southern border, witnesses say. One woman was killed and three other civilians wounded, a Sudanese Army spokesman was quoted by AFP as saying. A UN worker said five shells landed in and around Kadugli, leading aid workers to seek shelter with peacekeepers. Rebels have been fighting in South Kordofan since last year but the state capital has been largely peaceful. South Sudan, which seceded in 2011, denies backing the rebels. Precautionary measures The Sudanese army blamed rebels for Tuesday's attack. "This morning a group from SPLM-North tried to get inside Kadugli town and they shelled an area six kilometres (four miles) east of Kadugli. As a result of this a woman was killed and three citizens injured," Sudanese army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad told AFP. The United Nations said their humanitarian staff in the area had been moved to a nearby peacekeeping base "as a precautionary measure". "To our knowledge there were five mortar shells that landed in and around the town" of Kadugli, Damian Rance of the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told AFP news agency. Another UN worker said the shelling began at 1140 local time and lasted just over half an hour. He said one or two shells landed inside the Unicef compound but did not explode. The fighting in South Kordofan has been one of the major issues dividing Sudan and its southern neighbour over the past year. The two countries' leaders recently signed a partial peace deal aimed at reducing tensions. The rebels in South Kordofan fought with the south against the Khartoum government for two decades but after South Sudan's independence, they found themselves still in Sudan